Final Exam
Published on 14. August 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-1-5299-5675-7 (ISBN)
Description
In a fog-drenched Buenos Aires, Juan and Clara should be preparing for their final exam. Instead, they roam the city with friends, drifting through cafes, encountering strange happenings, and unravelling life's mysteries. All the while, they are shadowed by the mysterious Abel.
Darkly funny and steeped in ambiguity, Final Exam is Julio Cortazar's haunting allegory of a world on the brink-his melancholic, defiant farewell to an Argentina he would soon leave behind forever.
Darkly funny and steeped in ambiguity, Final Exam is Julio Cortazar's haunting allegory of a world on the brink-his melancholic, defiant farewell to an Argentina he would soon leave behind forever.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Vintage Publishing
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 194 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
192 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5299-5675-7 (9781529956757)
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Julio Cortazar lived in Buenos Aires for the first thirty years of his life, and after that in Paris. His stories, written under the dual influence of the English masters of the uncanny and of French surrealism, are extraordinary inventions, just this side of nightmare. In later life Cortazar became a passionate advocate for human rights and a persistent critic of the military dictatorships in Latin America. He died in 1984.